Tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot:

Quote:Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching again.

This time, among other problems, the chatbot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting, in which at least eleven people were killed at a Hanukkah gathering.

One of the assailants was eventually disarmed by a bystander, identified as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. The video of the interaction has been widely shared on social media with many praising the heroism of the man. Except those that have jumped at the opportunity to exploit the tragedy and spread Islamophobia, mainly by denying the validity of the reports identifying the bystander.

Grok is not helping the situation. The chatbot appears to be glitching, at least as of Sunday morning, responding to user queries with irrelevant or at times completely wrong answers.

In response to a user asking Grok the story behind the video showing al Ahmed tackling the shooter, the AI claimed “This appears to be an old viral video of a man climbing a palm tree in a parking lot, possibly to trim it, resulting in a branch falling and damaging a parked car. Searches across sources show no verified location, date, or injuries. It may be staged; authenticity is uncertain.”

In another instance, Grok claimed that the photo showing an injured al Ahmed was of an Israeli hostage taken by Hamas on October 7th.

In response to another user query, Grok questioned the authenticity of al Ahmed’s confrontation yet again, right after an irrelevant paragraph on whether or not the Israeli army was purposefully targeting civilians in Gaza.

In another instance, Grok described a video clearly marked in the tweet to show the shoot out between the assailants and police in Sydney to instead be from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which devastated Australia earlier this year. Although in this case, the user doubled down on the response to ask Grok to reevaluate, which caused the chatbot to realize its mistake.

Beyond just misidentifying information, Grok seems to be just truly confused. One user was served up a summary of the Bondi shooting and its fallout in response to a question regarding tech company Oracle. It also seems to be confusing information regarding the Bondi shooting and the Brown University shooting which took place only a few hours before the attack in Australia.

The glitch is also extending beyond just the Bondi shooting. Throughout Sunday morning, Grok has misidentified famous soccer players, gave out information on acetaminophen use in pregnancy when asked about the abortion pill mifepristone, or talked about Project 2025 and the odds of Kamala Harris running for presidency again when asked to verify a completely separate claim made about a British law enforcement initiative.

It’s not clear what is causing the glitch. Gizmodo reached out to Grok-developer xAI for comment, but they have only responded with the usual automated reply, “Legacy Media Lies.”

Grok Is Glitching and Spewing Misinformation About The Bondi Beach Shooting

(December 14, 2025 at 8:06 pm)Angrboda Wrote:

Quote:Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching again...

Grok Is Glitching and Spewing Misinformation About The Bondi Beach Shooting

(December 9, 2025 at 6:40 pm)Mr Greene Wrote:

I love it when Dr. Tyson bitch-slaps people with science.

Boru

The genius is hiring people to drive his taxis, but he's calling it artificial intelligence.

Quote:Tesla is recruiting factory workers and sales staff to operate its 'Robotaxi' service

The electric-car maker has started recruiting workers off factory lines to operate its ride-hailing fleet. Tesla is offering extra hours and pay to take on the role of AI operator, according to posters that appeared at its California factories earlier this month.

The AI operators sit in the driver's seat, actively monitoring the vehicle while Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is engaged, and taking over when needed. Tesla plans to eventually release the software as a fully autonomous service.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ro...rs-2025-12

(December 22, 2025 at 1:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The genius is hiring people to drive his taxis, but he's calling it artificial intelligence.

Quote:Tesla is recruiting factory workers and sales staff to operate its 'Robotaxi' service

The electric-car maker has started recruiting workers off factory lines to operate its ride-hailing fleet. Tesla is offering extra hours and pay to take on the role of AI operator, according to posters that appeared at its California factories earlier this month.

The AI operators sit in the driver's seat, actively monitoring the vehicle while Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is engaged, and taking over when needed. Tesla plans to eventually release the software as a fully autonomous service.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ro...rs-2025-12

Coloring by me: Yes and Trump eventually will release the Epstein files and his taxes. All of those arent going to happen.ever.

They wont release that software until our government releases them from any and all liability it's use incurs.

Here's everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 – and failed to deliver

To be blunt, Musk is a "bullshit artist." He makes promises he can't keep.

●People on Mars by 2025

Back in 2016 — roughly four years after his WSJ promise to put a man on Mars in 10 years — Musk made an appearance during Recode's Code 2016 conference. According to Musk, SpaceX would start sending rockets to Mars by 2018, followed by a new Mars mission every 26 months, and then they'd start sending people.

●Tesla robotaxis would cover half of the U.S. population

in July, during Tesla's Q2 quarterly financial report, Musk told investors that Tesla's robotaxis would be serving half of the nation.

“I believe half of the population of the US will be covered by Tesla’s robotaxi by the end of the year," Musk said.

●Fully driverless Tesla robotaxis

"Teslas will be in the wild with no one in them, in June in Austin," Musk said last year in a 2024 Q4 earnings call. "This is not some far-off mythical situation, it's five, six months away."

While Tesla's robotaxi service did arrive in Austin during that timeline, they weren't "with no one in them." The level of autonomy that Tesla's performs at requires a human safety monitor to ride inside the vehicle, according to Texas regulations.

But, Musk promised multiple times over the past few months that those human safety monitors would be removed by the end of 2025.

●xAI would achieve AGI

AGI can be defined as the type of artificial intelligence that we were promised in sci-fi movies. It's not a large language model that can sound human, like existing AI, but AI that can actually perform intellectual tasks just like a human. It can think, learn, reason, and take action.

In 2024, in a reply on his social media platform X, Musk said his AI company xAI would achieve AGI in 2025.

Well, surprise. It wasn't true.

●A flying car / demo of the long-awaited Tesla Roadster

During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Musk claimed that Tesla would drop a demo of the long-awaited Roadster, a vehicle which the company announced and started taking preorders for in 2017. The Tesla Roadster has still yet to be released eight years later.

Musk went further, recalling how his "friend" Peter Thiel would say that the future was supposed to have flying cars, yet we don't have flying cars. Rogan questioned Musk further but Musk just hinted that Thief should be able to buy a flying car and we'd all just have to wait to see the demo.

●DOGE would cut $2 trillion in 'waste, fraud and abuse'

Following Donald Trump's reelection, Musk was given the chance to head up a new quasi-government agency called DOGE in which he pledged to cut $2 trillion in what he described as "waste, fraud and abuse."

Now, new analysis from the New York Times as well as the right-wing CATO Institute, found that DOGE actually didn't save anything. Many of the government contacts that DOGE claimed to cancel are still active. In fact, government spending actually went up on DOGE's watch.

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-f...5-promises

Government spending went up because the Felon and his henchmen upset the system. Firing and rehiring people with back wages because the firing was unlawful cost the gov (and US) a lot of money. Letting toddlers with no idea how the wheels of government yank the levers of government is causing problems. Who knew?